POVERTY IN AFRICA

INTRODUCTION

• 70% live in rural areas and live on agricultural
• In Africa poverty has barely fallen
• World wide it has fallen 40% to 20%
• 218 million under extreme poverty sub- saharan
• Libya, Algeria e.c.t live under extreme poverty

CAUSES AND WOMEN IN POVERTY

• Insufficient income, conflict, environmental factors and population growth
• Desertification, deforestation , drought, water shortages
• 221 million in 1995 and 1 billion in 2009
• Give birth to average- 5.2 children
• Less than 20% have access to education

PERSONAL VIEWPOINT

• People suffering from poverty is unaceeptable.
• 29.4%- Somalya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya and the Sahara
• 35.3%- do not know
• 17.65%- Sudan, 17.65%- all regions
• Even though we are all equal humans, why are our lives so different?

CHILD POVERTY IN AFRICA

• 1.4 million children in africa live in homes that often rely on dirty streams.
• 1.5 million children have no flushing lavatories.
• 1.7 million live in shacks with no proper cooking, bedding or washing facilities.
• Four in ten children live in families where no one is employed.
• Out of the 330,000 children in africa at least 1000 children die.

ACTIONS

• The class can participate in the game free rice.
• People can contribute to doing the forty hour famine.
• You can donate money to an african child.
• You can fund money to their schools for better education.
• You can donate clothes or old furniture to a variety of organisations.

CONCLUSION

• Women and children suffer from poverty more than men
• In Africa 10.9 million children die each year
• 70% of the continent is under extreme poverty this includes the sub- Saharan

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